With house prices moving inexorably higher by the month, and interest rates on savings at an all-time low, more and more people are beginning to realize that static caravans really are viable alternatives to permanent, traditional-style homes. They are affordable, flexible and cost-advantageous alternatives to the brick and mortar constructions most of us think of as houses. At the end of the day, they can also travel with you should you have to relocate to another part of the country for work. There are indeed many benefits to buying a static caravan.
Who would choose a starter flat, bought at a ruinously expensive price, over the privacy of a state-of-the-art mobile home, which comes at an affordable cost? A static caravan offers you entry to the property market, in the place of your choice. A modern mobile home will also last for many years, making it a very desirable asset.
The cost benefits don’t just end there. In the United Kingdom, council tax is not levied on static caravans if they are used as primary residences. That is a serious amount of money to save each month, especially when you consider the sobering fact that council tax is levied on rented property. With times as hard as they are, that saving alone can be very significant.
Another significant benefit of static caravans lies in the difficulty of finding the right home for you that stands in the right location. All too often, these two very important factors are all but impossible to find in a property. It is usually either the right house in the wrong location or the opposite unsatisfactory combination. A static caravan can be made to your specification and then delivered to the perfect location; something that would be impossible to achieve with a conventional brick and mortar property.
If your circumstances change and you need to relocate for work or family reasons, having a static caravan will free you up from the costs and time involved in selling a conventional property. The only task you will undertake is to organize relocation to a caravan park or site in the area you are moving to. Therefore you will not have the hassle of selling your house and paying costly solicitor and estate agent fees.
There are, of course, other reasons why people buy static caravans. For instance, buying a static caravan is a more cost-effective method of purchasing a property to rent out. Most static caravans can easily accommodate an average size family and make for a reasonably-priced route into the property rental market. Alternatively, they make great holiday homes for all the family.
Once upon a time, there was a certain element of snobbishness involved whenever some people discussed static caravans. With headlines in the press that exclaim that a million middle class families simply can’t afford a mortgage on a traditional style property, those days are long gone. That’s yet another reason why more and more people are realizing that static caravans are an extremely viable alternative to traditional houses.
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